London Fields - Paperback
by Martin Amis
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Availability:Out of StockContributor:Martin AmisSeries:Vintage InternationalPublish date:1991-04-03Pages:480
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Knopf Doubleday Publishing GroupISBN-13:9780679730347ISBN-10:679730346UPC:9780679730347Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Literary, Mystery & Detective, CrimeBook Topic:TraditionalSize:8.00 x 5.23 x 1.06 inchesWeight:0.86Product ID:SCGS9QJFHG
NATIONAL BESTSELLER - A blackly comic late 20th-century murder mystery set against the looming end of the millennium, in which a woman tries to orchestrate her own extinction--from "one of the most gifted novelists of his generation" (TIME).
"Lyrical and obscene, colloquial and rhapsodic." --The New York Times First published in 1989, London Fields is set ten years into a dark future, against a backdrop of environmental and social decay and the looming threat of global cataclysm. As the dreaded Y2K approaches, Nicola Six, a "black hole" of sex and self-loathing, has chosen her thirty-fifth birthday, November 5, 1999, as the date of her own murder. Whom to manipulate into killing her is the question; her choice wavers between violent lowlife Keith Talent, who is obsessed with winning a darts tournament, and a dimly romantic banker named Guy Clinch. When Samson Young--a writer suffering from a long bout of writer's block--stumbles upon these three, he believes he has found a story that will write itself. A highly unusual mystery with an unexpected twist at the end, London Fields is also a corrosively funny narrative of pyrotechnic complexity and scalding moral vision.
"Lyrical and obscene, colloquial and rhapsodic." --The New York Times First published in 1989, London Fields is set ten years into a dark future, against a backdrop of environmental and social decay and the looming threat of global cataclysm. As the dreaded Y2K approaches, Nicola Six, a "black hole" of sex and self-loathing, has chosen her thirty-fifth birthday, November 5, 1999, as the date of her own murder. Whom to manipulate into killing her is the question; her choice wavers between violent lowlife Keith Talent, who is obsessed with winning a darts tournament, and a dimly romantic banker named Guy Clinch. When Samson Young--a writer suffering from a long bout of writer's block--stumbles upon these three, he believes he has found a story that will write itself. A highly unusual mystery with an unexpected twist at the end, London Fields is also a corrosively funny narrative of pyrotechnic complexity and scalding moral vision.
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Knopf Doubleday Publishing GroupISBN-13:9780679730347ISBN-10:679730346UPC:9780679730347Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Literary, Mystery & Detective, CrimeBook Topic:TraditionalSize:8.00 x 5.23 x 1.06 inchesWeight:0.86Product ID:SCGS9QJFHG
MARTIN AMIS is the author of 15 novels--among them Zone of Interest, London Fields, Time's Arrow, The Information, and Night Train--along with the memoir Experience, the novelized self-portrait Inside Story, two collections of stories, and seven nonfiction books. He died in 2023.
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
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